Comments on: Ask Autodesk a question

By: Eugene Boahene

Eugene Boahene — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:31:51 +0000

I need to have an extruded item be opaque when the hide command is used.
Right now when I hit hide, the items beneath the extruded shows through, like transparent.
I want the extruded counter to behave like a solid.
Please help. Thanks.

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:53:04 +0000

Hi i was wondering whether it is possible to draw a spline curve (the fit points option not the control vertices) through points which are already drawn. I was wondering whether you can select all the points at once and commanding a spline to be drawn through them rather than having to select the points one by one?
Thanks a lot
Regards
Edward

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:41:43 +0000

Steve, you’re a couple of years too late with that question. The purpose of this post was to get some questions that I could put direct to an Autodesk product manager on my then-forthcoming trip to San Francisco. I’m afraid I know nothing about your QAT issue.

By: Steve Carlson

Steve Carlson — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:52:05 +0000

Autocad 2010 – Quick Access Toolbar. Our company is finding that on some computers(all are OS=WIN7 – 64bit), when the designer clicks on the QAT open button, they experience a FATAL ERROR. This is consistent throughout the day, but very random with any drawing. As a workaround, we have had to turn the OPEN button off and asked the designers to use the old method.

The old method being; drag the STANDARD toolbar up to the top left of the screen (blocking the QAT toolbar) and using the buttons on it instead.

This has reduced our FATAL ERRORS to NONE. We are running CADWorx 2010 on top of AUTOCAD 2010.

Please let me know if there is a patch or a solution for the QAT OPEN issue.

By: Akhilesh

Akhilesh — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:10:09 +0000

Somehow the model panel ( on the left of our sketch)in which we see parts and operations performed on model went away.How to retrieve it back? This is regarding Autodesk Inventor 2011.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:13:21 +0000

I am working with Civil 3D 2011 and I want to set up my plan and profiles sheet so that when I do a profile it will come up with my company sheet and not the standard sheet with Autocad , How can I make my company sheet come in with the profile sheet .

By: Chris Cowgill

Chris Cowgill — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:28:05 +0000

if you are in AutoCAD 2008 and above, have you looked into annotative scaling?

By: Douglas De Mers

Douglas De Mers — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:11:01 +0000

Is there a way to auto set text size in model space, so that when printing from layout (paper) space the text is always the same size no mater what size paper you are printing from?

I do drawings from as small a scale as a few inches to drawings many times larger then a football field, and scale the text in model space is a pain. I like solved this for awhile by doing all the text in paper space, but many times I must alter the direction and position of the drawing in model space, so paper space text becomes all squewed.

By: Joe Barone

Joe Barone — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:43:14 +0000

How do you apply fill colors on a diagram?

By: CAD bloke

CAD bloke — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:59:32 +0000

Do you test any UX changes with experienced users. Do you test the UX at all. … Then why do you keep breaking it?

By: James Bloom

James Bloom — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:40:29 +0000

I have A version of Autocad 2007 I think it’s a network version. IT KEEPS COMING UP with Network License invalid or server down and throws me out of the program. Is there any way to fix this problem?.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:04:23 +0000

it would be nice to be able to change the colour, linetype and lineweight of all data contained on a layer regardless of whether those elements we drawn by layer.

the current by layer approach forces users to create multiple layers for the same data simply to diferentiate line thickness i.e.

wall 0.5mm thick or wall foreground
wall 0.25mm thick or wall background

a wall is a wall and users should be able to put all walls on a single layer but use different line thickness/colour for different walls but still be able to change all elements on that layer to a different line thickness / colour when referenced for various scenarious.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:26:29 +0000

in the sheet set manager it would be nice to be able to fill in the true sheet title in the sheet title area. this is currently not possible due to the restriction of special characters i.e.
TOWER 1, 2 AND 3 FLOOR PLAN is not allowed due to the ,

By: mark

mark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:19:37 +0000

can we have a more automated and flexible PURGE tool a la Microstations compress tool where the user can define what gets purged each time a file is saved. At the moment with AutoCAD you can only purge all (which is not actually all) or 1 item at a time.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:14:45 +0000

we need away of identifying what area each area field is measuring.

there is currently no association between the area field text and the shape(s) it is measuring which is very dangerous.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:06:33 +0000

can we have the abbility to include predefined standard annotative scales to block definitions.

For example i know my borehole plans will be printed at 1:100, 1:500 and 1:1000 so i should be able to add these annotative scales to my borehole block definition so that when users place this block the annotative scales are already defined, you should not have to add the annotative scales after placing the block.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:56:46 +0000

can users be given the following 3 options of how PDF files are named when published from AutoCAD:

DWG Filename – Layout name.pdf
DWG Filename.pdf
Layout name.pdf

It is standard practice for clients to request a DWG and PDF file of each drawing and these files are required to be named as per the drawing number. This simple request is currently un achievable with AutoCAD.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:50:24 +0000

can we have an efficient 1 step tool for offsetting data in XREF files?
When setting out road markings i need to be able to offset the road edges in the highway engineers highway XREF, similarly when setting out highway drainage i need to do the same.

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:09:37 +0000

The purpose of this post was to get some questions that I could put direct to an Autodesk product manager on my then-forthcoming trip to San Francisco. However, I’ll have a go at answering these.

Anthony, it depends on exactly what you’re using to put your labels in place. Maybe check out the Units and Dimstyle commands and change the units settings in there.

Victor, you need to put your .pat files where AutoCAD can find them. Use the Options command’s Files tab to look at your Support File Search Path; you can add your own paths in there and use that for these files if you wish. Once AutoCAD can find them, use the Hatch command, pick the … button next to Pattern, then use the Custom tab. Your patterns should be visible in there.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:53:04 +0000

I’m using AutoCAD 2005 and can’t figure out how to get hatch pattern that I found on the internet and are .pat file into AutoCAD to use! How is this done?

My comment is that I think it’s great if blog and question sityes like this really work. This is my first time using one. I feel like a virgin all over again!